Disk wheel



Dec'. 13, 1927.

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UNITED STATES FRED C. SCHOENTHAL, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR, BYMESNE ASSIGNMENTS, T STEEL WHEEL CORPORATION, OF LANSING, MICHIGAN, ACORPORATION 0F MICHIGAN.

DISK WHEEL.

Original application filed August 23, 1919, Serial No. 319,396. Dividedand this application' led August 26 This application is a divisionotapplication Serial No. 319,396, filed August 23, 1919.

This invention relates to improvements in disk wheels, particularly inthose of the reinforced single disk type.

One of the objects of my invention is to 4provide a disk Wheel of asingle plate disk .concentrically bent to give the disk resilience, andhaving a felloe portion at the .pe-

riphery of the plate formed by bendmg the same to give a circumferentialshoulder and y foundation to the demountable wheel rim.

Another object is to provide a wheel and l5 sectional rim, having therim of simple construction and demount-able and at the sametimeseparable, using only bolts to hold the parts together and to thefelloe.

Another object is to provide a single disk Wheel, which will replace thepresent wood Wheel on a givenstandard hub.

With these and other object-s my invention resides in certainconstruction, one embodiment of which is illustrated in the drawings, asadapted to the present Ford type of hub and is hereinater described andwhich I claim is set forth.

In the dra-wings,

Figure 1 is a fragmentary front elevation of a wheel embodyin myinvention.

Figure 2 is a section ta en on the line X--X of Fig. l.

Fi re 3 is a plan of a clamping outside ub disk.

"Figure 4 is a. medial section of the clamphub disk shown in Figure 3.

Figure 5 is a plan of the backing plate formed to concentrieally fit ahub and `flange of the Ford type.

4o Figure 6 is a section of the backing plate shown in Figure 5. l

Figure 7 is a perspective view of one of the'reinforcing pieces whichbridge the felloe at the bolt holes.

l 46 Figure 8 is a section of clincher rim to be used as analternate'forml of rimto that shown in Figures 1` and 2.

In the figures, there is shown a hub 1 journaled upon a shaft 2. Mountedon the hub 1 is a backing plate 3, secured by three bolts 4, tothefiange 5 of the hub l. Positioned between pairs of bolts 4 areoutstanding posts 6, integral with the plate Serial No. 495,692.

3. Mounted upon the hub 1, is the single bent vdisk 7` having areinforcing plate 8, bent to lie. in the-annular groove 9, of the plate3 and Aspaced at this point `from the disk 7. The periphery 10` of theplate 8. is welded to the disk 7. The disk 7 is bent circumferentiallytowards the back of the wheel and then curves outward toward thel frontof the wheel in the plane thereof and has its peripheral zone formedinto an angular felloe portion 11. the edge of which is conically bentoutward to conform to the back ofthe rim ring 12.

To the riin ring 12, a rim ring 14 is secured by bolts 15` having nuts16 which pass through holes 17 in the telloe portion 11.

Between the bolts 15. are bolts 18 passing through the flanges 19 of therim rings 12 and 14. and through holes 20. in the felloe portion 11.which holes are not large enough to allow the heads 21 to pass, so thatthe rim rings 12 and 14 are clamped as one piece to the felloe portion11.

The telloe portion 11 is reinforced about the bolt holes by bridgingpieces 22, which are welded in place. The heads 21 are held from turningby means of cotter pins 21 passing through the bridging pieces 22.

The disk 7. is secured to the backing plate 3, by means of nuts 4",threaded on the studs 6, secured in the post 6, the nuts 4 bear againstthe plate 3, in pockets t", and cause the plate 38L to clamp the disk 7against the backing plate 3.

Radially xed in the felloe portion 11, is the tire valve tube 23.

It will be noticed that the bend'7, of the disk 7 permits of the innerend of the tube 23, being exposed on the outside of the Wheel.

The clincher rim 12, shown in FigurefS, has an inturned flange 19,similar to the ange 19, of the separable rim shown in Figure 2. The rim12l with its ange 19l is adapted to fit upon the felloe portion 11,

of the wheel. In this case one set of bolts i parting from thespiritkand scope of my invention; I therefore do not-wish to be confinedto the lone embodiment herein illustrated and described.

5 Having" described my invention I claim: p

In a disk Wheel comprisina hub, a single sheet metal disk on said ubhaving its periphery formed into a felloe portion having bolt holesadapted to receive bolts fixing a rim thereon, and reinforcing piecesbridging an annular recess in said felloe ortion at said holes. l

In testimony whereof I aix'my signature.

. FRED C. SCHOENTHAL.

